Lo­cal opin­ions

On the eve of cannabis le­gal­iza­tion, Oct. 16, The North­ern Pen polled shop­pers at the Viking Mall for their thoughts.

The re­sults, al­though by no means sci­en­tific, sug­gest area res­i­dents are pretty equally di­vided among in favour, against and in­dif­fer­ent to the change. Of 44 peo­ple in­ter­viewed, 14 said le­gal­iza­tion was a good thing, 14 thought it was bad and 16 said it was nei­ther good nor bad or didn’t know.

“It seems to be okay be­cause it helps a lot of peo­ple,” said Ash­ley